Answer to the question: being an idiot again.
Can't he just go buy some glue or staples and go become private.

12:50 pm May 9, 2014

Dave wrote:

Romney is at heart a liberal. We're a lot better off with a liberal Democrat in the White House who we can easily blame for the liberal establishment's failures than a liberal Republican. There is a certain clarity with Obama that we would not have if Romney were President. If Romney had one, for example, then Romney would have gotten the blame for Obama's lies about Obamacare instead of Obama himself.

1:12 pm May 9, 2014

Follow the Money wrote:

Perhaps it is because as a person with a large stake in large companies, Mr. Romney is in favor or raising the costs of doing business for small businesses. Throwing up barriers to entry is standard business practice for all existing businesses. Imagine 1 minimum wage being considered necessary for 50 states all with their own costs of living. "If we could just get Tennessee to have to pay the same amount for their workers as we have to pay ours in Massachusetts, maybe we could slow down this exodus of people from the northeast to the southeast".

1:19 pm May 9, 2014

Imagine 1 minimum wage being considered necessary for 50 states all with their own costs of living. wrote:

we already have that, you clueless ignoramus

1:20 pm May 9, 2014

If we could just get Tennessee to have to pay the same amount for their workers wrote:

it doesnt set the same rate, it sets the minimum. christ tea baggers are clueless

1:21 pm May 9, 2014

Nathan Hale wrote:

RINO is as RINO does

1:36 pm May 9, 2014

Icepick wrote:

Because pandering to the idiots of his party, as we all saw, rendered him a loser in an election he should have won.

If THIS Mitt Romney ran in '12, he'd be sitting in the Oval Office. Instead, he descended to the level of the Tea Partiers and religious right -- whom he has to thank for his loss.

1:36 pm May 9, 2014

AbnRanger1984 wrote:

Granted, Mitt probably does have some cogent and insightful things to tell the GOP--just as Jeb likely does, as well. However, the objective is to convince a majority of US voters to not elect a Democrat president in 2016. That cannot be done with "Romney" or "Bush" on the ballot.

1:49 pm May 9, 2014

MB wrote:

Romney is not in public office and he is doing what is best for his business interests. Increasing the minimum wage will hurt his competition (small businesses) more than large ones. The only interest that matters when making good legislation however is the interest of the United States as a whole.

2:01 pm May 9, 2014

will hurt his competition (small businesses) wrote:

i love that tea baggers think republicans are out to protect small business. lol tea baggers are clueless

2:25 pm May 9, 2014

@1:19, @1:20, @2:01 wrote:

How much do they pay you to be a clueless liberal troll.

2:39 pm May 9, 2014

T. wrote:

I think it's funny that the GOP has no problem with washed-up has-beens out there as long as they toe the party line. Everyone from Santorum to Rick Perry to Dick Cheney have all been out there, including writing editorials on here on the WSJ. That's not a problem.... I guess it's only when someone dares to go against GOP dogma that there's a problem?

2:46 pm May 9, 2014

Helping out Massachusetts, presumably wrote:

After all, the federal minimum wage has long been a way for the northern states to try to keep down the southern states, where costs of living are lower and hence wages are lower. I had to hold my nose to vote for this guy, and now I recollect why.

3:09 pm May 9, 2014

JR wrote:

Mr. Romney is certainly right that Republican opposition to a minimum wage increase is sending the wrong message. You can legitimately argue its merits, but politically it is a loser for Republicans. And since there are legitimate pros and cons, this is not an issue the Republicans should bet the farm on. They have a fair chance of winning the Senate, and that should be the highest priority for the next six months.

3:51 pm May 9, 2014

Che Limbaugh wrote:

I don’t understand Republicans’ opposition to an increased minimum wage. Currently, some folks don’t make enough with the current min. wage and qualify and receive federal (i.e., taxpayer) assistance, like food stamps. This means that our tax dollars are subsidizing a private employer’s crummy pay.

Increasing the min. wage would remove millions free millions from taxpayer assistance and force the private employer to shoulder the burden of paying its employees more.

You know, I bet Republicans would just rather ignore the fact that this is yet another display of their well-formed hypocrisy. Beautiful

4:00 pm May 9, 2014

How much do they pay you wrote:

thats clever! did you think up that retort all by yourself. lol tea baggers are clueless

7:09 pm May 9, 2014

Diamondback wrote:

There it is again. That face with that Ken doll weird smile. Creepy.

11:39 pm May 9, 2014

Anonymous wrote:

mormonizing

11:44 pm May 9, 2014

Saving lves wrote:

The drop in preventable death in Massachusetts over the four years after near-universal coverage “Romney Care” went into effect there was 3% of adults under 65.

Projecting the same percentage effect nationwide for the same period, the lives saved would have been approximately 17,000.

The possible implications of this data: (1) The Affordable Health Care law (Obama Care) once fully implemented will save many thousands of lives going forward, (2) political attacks against it will become increasingly difficult to make, (3) State governors now declining full Obama Care will be under increasing pressure to relent, (4) political parties claiming ethical superiority will find it more and more difficult to oppose universal coverage.

12:09 am May 10, 2014

Clueless Che wrote:

@3:51. Why do you hate poor people? Raising the minimum wage will increase the barrier to entry for poor or unskilled people to get jobs. What did your first job pay? Think of delivering papers, mowing lawns, shoveling snow, etc. Minimum wage? Probably not. But it was a first job and that led to a second one and so on. If you raise the minimum wage, those entry level jobs will not go to the people who need them, i.e., poor people or people with few skills. So, why do you hate the poor?

12:22 pm May 10, 2014

Blase wrote:

Good question. Mitt needs to shut up and go home.

2:45 pm May 11, 2014

Bill Fitzgerald wrote:

Why on TV? Because he is a leader in business, in civic duties, in church, in family, in sports in volunteering in service and everything he does and because someone needs to step it up was our economy is in dire straits and because he would have done far better than the corrupt tax and spend current POTUS . Next dumb question?

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